Archive for the ‘Computer Issues’ Category
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
They say that one man's trash is another man's treasure. Well there is a new website that takes this concept literally. Freecycle is a site that is making an effort to reduce the burden on landfills by recycling merchandise and membership is free.
Members simply post items they don't ...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
I am proud to say in middle school (we called it junior high school back then), I successfully completed two years of Spanish. However, the extent of my fluency now is counting to twenty and saying, "Mi casa es azul." The funny thing is I have never lived in ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
PowerPoint's AutoShapes feature enables you to insert items such as lines, connectors, basic shapes, arrows, flowcharts, stars and banners, callouts, and action buttons. You can draw almost any shape you need using the AutoShapes feature by simply clicking and dragging. You can also move, resize, and delete AutoShapes ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
I have written about free, open source software alternatives in past but I thought it might be time to bring up the topic again since Microsoft recently introduced Office 2007. Open source projects are cooperative efforts to develop a variety of software alternatives. The software is developed by highly qualified ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
I think I have uncovered one of those "facts of life" that you hear so much about. It seems that every time you have a birthday that ends with a zero, your body changes (usually not in a good way). The best description of this phenomenon I have ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Every now and then you want a special font style to add just the right touch to a document, report or special project. Purchasing a commercial font program can be very expensive - and you know how I hate expensive. So what should you do? Turn to ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
My wife recently attended an art conference in New York and she took a bunch of digital photos using our Sony Cybershot camera. She was using a 128 MB memory stick but the camera has a little "bug" that will let you take more photos than the card had ...
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Have you ever watched a streaming video on the net that you would have liked to capture for later use. Unfortunately, you can't just save a streaming video like a normal file - until now. Keepvid uses the slogan “want it, keep it†and that’s what you can ...
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Here are a few more basic Google tricks to help you get the most out of your web searches. If you are doing a search and you want to match just Cardinal Academy use quotes as in "Cardinal Academy". If you don't want to use double quotes, you ...
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
As most of my regular readers know by now, my computer of choice is an Apple Powerbook. However, I have been trying to figure out what to do with my old Windows computer. It is such a pain to keep the virus protection and anti-spyware software up to ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Google is so ubiquitous that it is listed as a verb in the dictionary. However, if you are just using it to do phrase searches, you are missing out on a lot of its power. Here are a few hints for getting the most out of your Google ...
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
For the last two years, I have been encouraging you to discover the world of podcasts, particularly the CopCAST podcast. Podcasts provide you with on-demand entertainment - for FREE! Of course, two years is a lifetime in the high tech world and on line broadcasts have continued to ...
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
I promised my wife that I would take her on a vacation to Europe this year for our 25th anniversary. I am sure that we will have a great time and walk away from the experience with memories that will last a lifetime. On the flip side, we ...
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
Those of you who are regular CopCAST listeners know that my co-host, Mack Pettigrew, is a sergeant with the Ontario Provincial Police.
Mack has been working really hard to build a new website call CanadaCops.com. In addition to having some really interesting content about our neighbors from the north, Mack ...
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